Move jails hard way to iocage

[Daniel Stevenson]

On Friday, March 26th, 2021 at 15:45, Jacques Foucry <jacques+freebsd at foucry.net> wrote:

> Le vendredi 26 mars 2021 à 09:00:24 (-0400), Dan Langille à écrit:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021, at 5:34 AM, Dan Langille wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021, at 5:28 AM, Jacques Foucry wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello Friends,
> > > >
> > > > I run many jails, configured in the "hard way" (ie `/etc/jail.conf` file) and
> > > >
> > > > I would like to move them into iocage.
> > > >
> > > > I can't find any help on the Internet (may be I did search corretly).
> > > >
> > > > Did some own have a pointer or a how-to?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance for your time and advises,
> > >
> > > https://dan.langille.org/2021/02/28/converting-an-iocage-jail-to-a-vanilla-jail/
> >
> > Sorry, I misread, and though you were moving to jails.
>
> No problem :-)
>
> > This is from ezjail to iocage. Might help.
> >
> > https://dan.langille.org/2019/04/08/converting-thin-jails-to-thick-jails/
>
> Sure it's help.
>
> > Yes, I have been moving from iocage to vanilla jails. I find it better suits my use
> >
> > cases, specifically my FreshPorts jails which contain zfs file systems which it
> >
> > must occasionally issue a 'zfs rollback'. I also like that my jails start or stop
> >
> > faster. The additional work I need to do relates to jail creation (creating the
> >
> > file systems etc). For that, I'm using https://github.com/mkjail/mkjail - in fact,
> >
> > this morning I am using that to update several jails.
> >
> > e.g. [dvl at r720-02:~/src/mkjail/src] $ sudo bin/mkjail upgrade -v 12.2-RELEASE -j nginx01
>
> Interesting, may be I will reconsider switching…
>
> > After reading FreeBSD Mastery: Jails I saw how straight forward a jail.conf entry can
> >
> > be. https://mwl.io/nonfiction/os#fmjail
>
> I read it, but there's no words about VNET and vanilla jails. Seems a little
>
> bit more difficult and all the jails must be switch at the same time (as I saw
>
> from my small experience).

I just finished the book; it does indeed talk about vanilla VNET jails.
There's a section in Chapter 9 titled "Standard VNET Jails."  It might
be worth another look.

> But I read to that you are not very happy with VNET jails :-)
>
> Btw, it's very hard to make my own opion with all the different experiences I
>
> read. :-)
>
> That said, and off topic, thanks for your blog, your shared experiences,
>
> FreshPorts and all you do for the community.

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Daniel Stevenson